Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those teams. Unless, that is, you happen to be me. There's a conspiracy afoot against me. Just about every sports fan I know back in my hometown on Long Island has had at least one team to root for during this year of years for Empire State athletics. Except...
...does not belong in our country or in international society. After two preliminary games--the North Korea-South Korea and Iran-Iraq matches--ended peacefully, one would have thought that the worst was over. We had little reason to worry about goons; American sports fans are remarkably well-behaved, except for a basketball championship or two in Detroit and Chicago...
Hollis and Stoughton were completed last summer--except for the bathrooms. That's this summer's project for Alana M. Knuff--that, and the renovations of Canaday Hall...
...Loyola University Medical Center, where the twins were born, had advised against any intervention. But Philadelphia's O'Neill insists that the child had a reasonable chance of recovery. "We never believed that it was a 1% chance. If we thought that it was not a reconstructible heart except for a snowball's chance in hell, we would have advised against it. We take long odds every day, but not crazy odds." Others agree. "The tragic end result does not mean that the right decision was not made from the beginning," says Mark Siegler, director of the MacLean Center...
While the novel takes Western readers on a rare journey to the other side of the Vietnam War, Americans may be surprised at the small role they play. Like many NVA vets, Ninh says he never fought against Americans, "except those in helicopters. I only fought against Vietnamese. Our war was mostly brother against brother. That's what is most bitter...